Voltaire Quotes, Book Quotes

Only your friends steal your books.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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